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English
Etymology
Latin indicans
Adjective
indicant (not comparable)
- indicative; that points out.
2009, Paul L. Heck, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism:The ability to suffer patiently, then, is indicant of spiritual maturity
Noun
indicant (plural indicants)
- Something which indicates or points out; an indicator
- {{quote-text|en|year=1910|title=[[s:The Science of Advertising (1910)|The Science of Advertising|author=Edwin Balmer|text=Yet in spite of the essential crudity of this advertising, it had very early developed the value of the trademark as an indicant of quality in the product to which it was attached.}}
1927, Willard Huntington Wright, The "Canary" Murder Case/Chapter 11, Chapter 11:"A number of things—his gratuitous and obviously mendacious statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly insincere homily on the sacredness of professional confidences; the cautious and Pecksniffian confession of his fatherly regard for the girl; his elaborate struggle to remember when he had last seen her—this particularly, I think, made me suspicious; and then, the psychopathic indicants of his physiognomy."
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Verb
indicant
- gerund of indicar
Latin
Etymology 1
Form of the verb indicō (“indicate”).
Verb
indicant
- third-person plural present active indicative of indicō
Etymology 2
Form of the verb indīcō (“declare”).
Verb
indīcant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of indīcō